Night lights of carbon footprints *Explore your country Get the global results What are carbon footprints and scope1 & 3 emissions? Making the link to GDP - what does this show about equality How did we do it? A technical summary
This model provides a globally consistent, spatially resolved (250m), estimate of carbon footprints (also called Scope 3 emissions) in per capita and absolute terms across 189 countries. It incorporates existing subnational models for the US, China, Japan, EU, and UK. The model is described in the open-access publication Carbon footprints of 13,000 cities . This article from Scientific American also gives a nice overview of the study. The results have also been covered by Forbes , World Economic Forum , NAS
The PNG files are colorized 2d images suitable for presentations. The GeoTIFFs are 16bit datasets, sliced out from the global model, suitable for analysis. Download PNGfor all countries